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Title The world of the Aramaeans III / edited by P.M. Michèle Daviau, John W. Wevers and Michael Weigl
Published Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 324-326
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 324-326.
Contents Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Paul-Eugène Dion: An Appreciation; Compositional Strategies in the Aramaic Sayings of Ahikar: Columns 6-8; The Sefire Treaty Stipulations and the Mesopotamian Treaty Tradition; A Neo-Babylonian Tablet with an Aramaic Docket and the Surety Phrase pūt šēp(i) ... našû; What Ever Happened to Vidranga? A Jewish Liturgy of Cursing from Elephantine; A propos de l'Inscription de Mesha' deux notes; Tales about Sennacherib: The Contribution of the Syriac Sources; Phoenician Inscriptions from Tell el-Maskhuta
Dialektvielfalt und Sprachwandel im frühen Aramäischen Soziolinguistische ÜberlegungenUgaritic Science; Observations on the Date of the Syriac Cave of Treasures; Bibliography of Paul-Eugène Dion; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of Personal and Tribal Names; Index of Geographical Names
Summary The World of the Aramaeans is a three-volume collection of definitive essays about the Aramaeans and the biblical world of which they were a part. Areas of interest include the language, epigraphy and history of the Aramaeans of Syria as well of their neighbours, the Israelites, Phoenicians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. The third volume, on language and literature, includes essays by Michael Weigl, William Marrow, Grant Frame, James M. Lindenberger, Pierre Bordreuil, Amir Harrak, Theodore Lutz, Josef Tropper, Dennis Pardee and Clemens Leonhard
Bibliography "Bibliography of Paul-Eugène Dion: scholarly publications and lectures": v. 1, p. [289]-296; v. 2, p. [309]-316
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English, French, German, or Italian
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Arameans -- History
Aramaic philology.
Antiquities
Aramaic philology
Arameans
SUBJECT Middle East -- History -- To 622. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
Middle East -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Daviau, P. M. Michèle
Wevers, John William
Weigl, Michael, 1963-
Dion, Paul-Eugène, 1934-
ISBN 0567637379
9780567637376